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- That twinge in your intestines
I buy a lot of stuff off of ebay, but I never bid until the last two minutes of an auction. When I'm watching an item and somebody places a bid that's higher than what I intended to pay for the item, I start running the bid up in the smallest increments that ebay will allow, until I either reach a price that I think is outrageous and am scared to continue, or have outbid the other guy by the minimum increment. I have gotten burned twice on relatively small purchases by doing this, but I usually lose the auction, having forced the competing bidder to pay way more for the item. I was watching a pair of amplifiers all week, and some guy came in and bid $124 for them. I have run the price up to $192.50 and am still losing. Making him pay almost $70 more than he set out to pay is almost as good as winning the auction.
Am I the only sicko here who feels that way? :biggrin1:
Am I the only sicko here who feels that way? :biggrin1: